Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie

September. 28,2007

Rating：

6.1

Genre：

Drama TV Movie

Keywords：

Loss Of Loved One Berlin Wall East Germany

Trailer Synopsis Cast

Based on a true story, Miguel Alexandre's two-part drama focuses on an East German woman and the fight for her children. Spring 1982: Sara Bender, living with her daughters Silvia and Sabine in the East German town of Erfurt, wants to marry her colleague Peter, but shortly before the wedding, her father is killed in a road accident. As the funeral takes place in West Germany, she isn't allowed to got there, so she starts planning to leave her communist home country forever. Trying to flee via Romania, she is caught by the secret service. After years in jail, Sara is ransomed by the West German government, but without her daughters. To draw the world's attention on her desperate situation, she starts demonstrating at the Berlin border crossing Checkpoint Charlie

Veronica Ferres as Sara Bender

Peter Kremer as Peter Koch

Filip Peeters as Richard Panter

Michael Schenk as Hans Wimpel

Karl Kranzkowski as Horst Seelig

Maria Ehrich as Silvia Bender

Elisa Schlott as Sabine Bender

Peggy Lukac as Marlene Engel

Winnie Böwe as Britta Sandfuß

Charlotte Schwab as Aenne Bubach

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